{"product_id":"hillingalond-61766-53415","title":"Hillinglands # 61766","description":"Hillingalönd. Twelve stories by Guðrún H. Finnsdóttir.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The stories are: - Topic: Outside the Garden; The Scribe's Shop; At the Crossroads; No One Lives for Himself; Under the Fall; The Town's Ornaments; The Christmas Gift; The National Debt; At the End of the Play; War Debts; Christmas Fires; The Voice of the Crier; The Cremation; In the Changing of the Lights.\u003cbr\u003e As you can see here, there are fourteen stories. \u003cbr\u003eGuðrún Helga Finnsdóttir was born on February 6, 1884, in Geirólfsstaðir in Skriðdalur. There she grew up in good circumstances until she was sixteen, when she went to study at the Women's College in Akureyri. There she met Gísli Jónsson, a printer, poet and editor from Háreksstaðir in Jökuldalsheiði, and married him in 1902. A few months later, he went west to look for work, and she followed him in June 1904. They settled in Winnipeg and lived there ever since, maintaining a large household that was very hospitable. They had five children, and both had to work hard to maintain their wealth. Of their children, four reached adulthood, three daughters and one son, all of whom settled in the West, married into American families, and adopted American surnames. Guðrún took an active part in the social life of West Icelanders, giving lectures at community gatherings, doing church work for the Unitarian Church, writing articles that appeared in local newspapers, sitting on the board and being an honorary member of at least three associations. In addition to all this, she wrote over 30 short stories.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn 1938, Guðrún H. Finnsdóttir's short story collection, Hillingalönd, was published in Reykjavík, and it is the only book she left behind during her lifetime. This collection contains fourteen stories, most of which had previously appeared in the Nationalist Society's Journal or Heimskringla. Her stories were well received and were considered well written in the Golden Age language. After Guðrún's death, her husband, Gísli Jónssson, published the short story collection Dagshríður spor, which was published in Akureyri in 1946, with twelve stories, and four years later the memorial book Ferðalok, which was published in Winnipeg. This book contains several lectures and speeches by Guðrún, including a talk about E. Pauline Johnson, a prominent poet of Indian descent, and Clara Barton, who was a pioneer in the founding of the Red Cross. (www.skald.is).","brand":"Bókin.is","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51123016925512,"sku":"OSC-53415","price":9500.0,"currency_code":"ISK","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0916\/4029\/9848\/files\/60028.jpg?v=1754755337","url":"https:\/\/www.bokin.is\/en\/products\/hillingalond-61766-53415","provider":"bokin.is","version":"1.0","type":"link"}